ABSTRACT
Among the members of a clan there was, we may safely assume, considerable social intercourse. The limited extent of territory occupied by a clan would render this easily possible, even though highways were few and poor, and the importance of the clan as an organisation would necessitate this. Each family may have been largely dependent upon its own resources; each city most certainly was so dependent. Still, on questions of public policy, in the settlement of individual controversies that were beyond the jurisdiction or power of the elders who sat in the gates, in the arrangement of marriages, etc., there must have been occasion for frequent communication between the different parts of a clan. While wagons were used but little, save for local purposes, being too cumbrous, saddled asses were common, and they furnished a convenient and fairly comfortable means of locomotion between neighbouring and even distant cities. “A comparison of the passages in which https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203804780/8e8941d7-e6e8-472b-9126-595762a26c13/content/ch7_page68-01_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
